day 60rites and etiquette
unit 9 · family, tradition & historyrites and etiquette
Understand the hage-style command -게 (이리 앉게), and talk about rites, condolences and good manners: 관혼상제, 관례, 관행, 답례, 사양, 문상, 부고, 명복, 예의범절.
today’s words
- 관례 gwallye · custom, precedent; coming-of-age rite
- 관행 gwanhaeng · practice, convention
- 관혼상제 gwanhonsangje · the four family rites
- 답례 damnye · return (of a favour), thank-you gift
- 만세 manse · hurrah! long live …!
- 매장 maejang · burial
- 명당 myeongdang · auspicious site; the best spot
- 명복 myeongbok · happiness of the departed (명복을 빌다)
- 묘지 myoji · cemetery, grave
- 무형 muhyeong · intangible
- 묵념 mungnyeom · silent tribute, a moment’s silence
- 문상 munsang · condolence call
- 문안 munan · (paying) your respects to an elder
- 받들다 batdeulda · honour, serve (elders, ancestors)
- 부고 bugo · death notice, obituary
- 사양 sayang · declining (politely)
- 상 sang · mourning, a death in the family
- 상여 sangyeo · funeral bier
- 속설 sokseol · popular belief, folk saying
- 시신 sisin · (dead) body
- 약소하다 yaksohada · modest, small (of your own gift)
- 얼 eol · spirit, soul (of a people)
- 예의범절 yeuibeomjeol · manners, etiquette
sentences
- 관혼상제는 어른이 되는 의식과 혼례, 장례, 제사를 가리키는 말이다. · The four family rites are coming of age, marriage, funerals and ancestral rites.
- (사장이 부장에게) 관례에 따라 올해 송년회도 자네가 주최하게. · (a company owner to a department head) Following custom, you host this year’s year-end party too.
- 야근을 당연하게 여기는 관행은 이제 바뀌어야 한다. · The practice of taking overtime for granted has to change.
- 사람들은 거리로 나와 태극기를 흔들며 만세를 불렀다. · People poured into the streets, waving the national flag and shouting “Manse!”
- 보건 관련 법에 따라 시신은 사망 후 24시간이 지나야 매장할 수 있다. · Under the public-health law, a body may be buried only 24 hours after death.